New Delhi: The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that it was probing into the allegations that former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan and his relatives amassed disproportionate assets and sought three weeks to decide about its further course of action against them.
Appearing before a bench of Chief Justice S H Kapadia and Justice Swatanter Kumar, Attorney General G E Vahanvati gave the Income Tax probe status report to it in a sealed envelop and said the IT department was currently engaged in assessing properties of Balakrishnan's two sons-in-law and brother.
"Real inquiry has been done by the Income Tax Department as it was related to the properties of sons-in-law and brother," Vahanvati said, adding "the issue involved holding of benami property".
The bench after going through the status report asked the government to tell it as to what further action it intended to take on allegations against the former CJI....
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